King's Cinema
Old Market Street,
Bristol,
BS2
Old Market Street,
Bristol,
BS2
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Made a rare visit to this fleapit in the late 70s . The building was very run down and have to say viwing the film was a bit off putting as rain from outside trickled in along walls and down aisles ( psychedelic it was not )
another one of my places of employment during the late 60s as a projectionist where i met my wife. one of my all time favourite films was Bullitt steve mcqueen never got tired of showing it.
Correct Mike, In the 1950’s & 1960’s, an (X) certificate was given to horror films and films with a sexual content, and could only be viewed by persons over 16 years old. Strangely, nudist films (which were popular at that time and showed more bare flesh than the (X) certified sex films) were given an (A) certificate which meant that persons under 16 could view them if accompanied by a person over 16 years old. The reason is that they were considered ‘educational’!
the “X” rating in Britian is not the same as in the states,right Ken?
Inside the auditorium of the King’s Cinema in the 1920’s:
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Photographed during closing week in December 1976:
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A vintage photograph of the King’s Cinema in 1958:
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